The video made in the square of Baiano (Avellino) has now gone viral, immortalizing a group of very young people who, after having climbed over a fence, climbed onto the statue of Padre Pio and began to make disrespectful gestures towards one of the religious figures most loved by the community.

"The mayor and the entire municipality were immediately indignant about what happened," underlined deputy Francesco Emilio Borrelli, who was notified of the images of what happened.

"The video that left us speechless: a group of kids who, with total disrespect, desecrate the statue of Padre Pio in the square, climbing over it and sitting on it as if it were a simple piece of street furniture", says the mayor Enrico Montanaro, "this is not only a rude gesture, but an alarming signal of a void of values that we cannot ignore. Where is respect, education, the sense of the sacred? It is unacceptable that symbols of our faith and our culture are treated with such superficiality".

The mayor announces new security measures, with the installation of new cameras both in Piazza F. Napoletano and in Villa Comunale, in order to prevent such incidents from happening again.

"Baiano's is an unspeakable gesture, the result of a sub-culture that increasingly characterizes the actions of many young people intoxicated by violence, by profound ignorance and by worrying moral degradation. The protagonists of this shame can be easily identified and punished as they deserve, but their families certainly cannot opt out of the social disaster they are producing. Responsibilities must also fall on them because it is certainly not tolerable that the evident parental incapacities are paid for by the entire community", comments Borrelli.

(Unioneonline/Fr.Me.)